Well, we’ve come to that once-a-year-event where Ja-Rule manages to sneak himself into a headline. This time, it’s over a claim he made that he is the LeBron James of rap, raising questions that Ja may not actually know who LeBron James is and what he does.

Ja-Rule (birth name: Jeffrey Atkins) gave himself the title via an Instagram hashtag, which ran alongside a longer message to Eminem, who name dropped Ja-Rule on two different songs.

Eminem name-dropped Ja on “Greatest” and “Killshot,” rapping “You ain’t never made a list next to no Biggie, no Jay/Next to Taylor Swift and that Iggy hoe, you about to really blow/Kelly, they’ll be putting your name/Next to Ja, next to Benzino—die, motherfucker!/ Like the last motherfucker sayin’ Hailie in vain.”﻿

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Well, Ja apparently felt a way about it, taking to Instagram to do some virtual chest-beating.

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“The more Em Mentions my name the more I realize how fucking LEGENDARY I am...I was killing the game so hard that all the biggest rappers in the industry (at the time) joined forces to dethrone the God,” he wrote, adding “my music TIMELESS.”